17 Bible Verses about Pressing

I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We are pressed (afflicted) (troubled) on every side, but not crushed. We are perplexed yet not to despair.

Stand back! they shouted. Who do you think you are? We let you settle among us, and now you are trying to tell us what to do! We will treat you far worse than those other men! They pushed Lot and began breaking down the door.

I was fiercely attacked and was being defeated, but Jehovah helped me.

The donkey saw the angel and it moved over against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against it. Again Balaam beat the donkey.

Pharaoh's cup was in my hand. I took the grapes and squeezed them into it. I put the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

That is what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the wool and wrung enough dew out of it to fill a bowl with water.

Surely the churning of milk brings butter, and the wringing of the nose brings blood, so the forcing of wrath brings strife.

Therefore prophesy and say: 'The Lord Jehovah says: For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side. That way you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become a subject of conversation for the people.

He asked his disciples to have a small boat ready because the crowd might press too close to him.

He healed many. Others with afflictions pressed close to him that they might touch him.

Jesus went with him. A great crowd followed him and they pressed very close to him.

His twelve-year old daughter was dying. She was his only daughter. As he went the crowds surrounded him.

Jesus said: Who touched me? Peter and the others with him said: Master, the people press in from all sides.

His disciples said to him: You see all these people around you and you ask who touched me?

Jesus stood by the Lake of Gennesaret as the crowds pressed in upon him in order to hear the word of God.

Give and it shall be given to you. You will receive a good measure. It will be pressed down, shaken together, running over and they will give it to you. For with the measure that you measure out it will be measured to you also.